Semya Ajmi-Watbled, departmental secretary of SNES-FSU of Drôme, was a guest of France Bleu Drôme Ardèche this Wednesday morning
France Bleu Drôme Ardèche: one of the announcements which marks this act 2 of the “shock of knowledge” is this maths test which will arrive first in the baccalaureate for all students. What do you think?
We have been agitating for this test for a while and it is synonymous with “we are going to raise the level in mathematics”. Except that, like many government ideas, it is a false good idea since this test is being announced without consultation. Our minister says that she consulted with the union organizations. But this is not true since all the union organizations have asked him to abandon the clash of knowledge. And that's not what she did. So, in relation to this mathematics test, we balance this mathematics test. Except that we do not take into account the state of mathematics in the establishments. We have different groups. In mathematics, you have students who do a little bit of mathematics after the second year, students who do the mathematics specialty until the final year. And all these students would take the same test next year, starting next year. It doesn't make sense. And so, when discussing high school mathematics with colleagues, it causes great anxiety. What about the program? What about this test? Will students specializing in math take a test in first grade, a test in final year?
For you, it will not in any case improve the level of students in maths
Of course not. To improve the level of students in maths, we should provide resources, there should be hours. We just cut hours.
End of third year, the compulsory certificate to move on to second year. This too was announced yesterday. How do you take it?
But it is the continuation of act one initiated by Mr. Attal. That is to say that in the clash of knowledge, there was this compulsory patent, this compulsory patent against which we are rebelling. It's scandalous, it means that we are closing the door to students. We tell them you only have one path for those who are in difficulty since we are going to close the door to the second general and the second pro with this compulsory certificate.
It will only open the CAP door
When you hear your new minister say that there will be 1000 more teachers, do you say that it's window dressing?
Do I have to be honest? It made me want to laugh since only a few weeks ago, we announced 4,000 fewer positions. On the 2025 budget, these positions are not there. We are also in an unprecedented recruitment crisis, which means that it is only getting worse. I have no idea what she's actually talking about.
Ministers of education have been succeeding each other for several years now. Are you no more satisfied today than yesterday?
I find that we have made our task easier to make us the ones who are never happy since we collect ministers one after the other with people who have no awareness of what is happening on the ground, who make pretend. In the letter that Madame Genetet (Minister of National Education editor's note) sent us, she tells us: “we consulted with the union organizations. It's not true, we told her, we gave her feedback from the field . And there we get act two from the clash of knowledge While act one doesn't work.
